(6) Mosaic pavements, usually belonging to Byzantine buildings; should be recorded by means of coloured drawings.

CHAPTER VII

EGYPT

[See the diagrams of flint implements, Illustration II; pottery, Illustration XIII; and the table of hieroglyphic signs liable to be confused with each other, Illustration I]

First Prehistoric Age, 8000?-7000?  B.C.  Cemeteries of round or oval pits on the desert; no towns known.  Red faced pottery, often with lustrous black top, earliest with patterns of white slip lines:  all hand-made.  Block figures of ivory or paste.  Combs with long teeth and animal tops.

Second Prehistoric Age, 7000?-5500 B.C.  Graves, square pits.  Red faced, and much coarse brown pottery.  Buff with red painting of cordage, spirals, and ships.  Pot forms copied from stone.  Some pots globular with wavy ledge handles, changing to cylinders with wavy band.  Slate palettes in all prehistoric periods.

Early Dynasties, 5500-4700 B.C.  Towns and cemeteries.  Great mastabas of brick.  Wooden coffins begin.  Great jars; hard, wheel-made pottery.  Glazed tiles, &c.  Stone bowls common.  Cylinder sealings on clay.

Pyramid Period, IV-Vl Dynasties, 4700-4000 B.C.  Sculptured stone tomb-chapels.  Diorite bowls.  Thick brown pot offering bowls.  Limestone statues, painted.  Cornelian amulets in strings.

Vl-XI Dynasties, 4200-3600 B.C.  Copper mirrors begin.  Buttons, wide face, un-Egyptian work.  Pottery models of houses placed on grave edge.

Middle Kingdom, Xll-XIII Dynasties, 3600-2900 B.C.  Brick pyramids.  Large rock tomb-chapels, painted.  Hard drab pottery.  Alabaster kohl-pots, good forms.  Globular beads, large; cornelian, amethyst, and green glaze.  Scroll pattern scarabs.

XIV-XVII Dynasties. 2900-1600 B.C.  Small flasks with handles, black with pricked patterns.  Coarsely cut scarabs.  Shell beads.

New Kingdom XVIII-XXI Dynasties, 1587-952 B.C.  Small painted tombs.  Pottery, red face black edge to 1500; buff, red and black lines to 1400; blue bands 1400-1200.  Hard polished drab, about 1400-1350.  Glass beads, &c., abundant 1400-1300.  Glaze deep blue 1500, brilliant blue 1400, poor blue 1300, green 1200:  deep blue ushabtis 1100, pale and rough 1000.  Ushabtis, stone or wood engraved 1550-1450, pottery 1450 to very coarse 1250, wood very coarse by 1250; glazed fine 1300, decline to small rough lumps 800.  Beads, minute coloured glaze and stone to 1450, thin discs 1450-1350, coloured pastes red and blue 1450 to 1300, yellow glass mainly 1300- 1200, poor glaze after 1200.  Alabaster kohl-pots, clumsy forms to 1450; tubes of stone, glaze, wood, or reed 1450-1200.

Bubastites, XXII-XXV Dynasties, 950-664 B.C.  Clumsy large jars, widening to bottom, small handles.  Green glazed figures of cat-head goddess, cats, pigs, and sacred eyes; coarse glass beads, yellow and black:  copper wire bracelets.  Glass beads with blue spots in circles of brown and white.  Scarabs coarse and worst at 750.  Fine work revived at 700 by Ethiopians.  Glazes dull, dirty, green.  Glass unknown.  Coffins very roughly painted.